This month, the blog is all about families. Check out this post to see the lineup for the month & see the posts that are already up. These are just suggestions that have helped our own families grow closer, but maybe they’ll help yours, too.

When I was growing up, Sunday was cookie day. Every Sunday when we got home from church, my dad would help my siblings and I make chocolate chip cookies. Each Sunday we made hundreds (at least it seemed that way to me.) My favorite part about it was after they were all made, we would deliver them to neighbors. Every week, five or six lucky neighbors would receive a plate full of cookies.

This activity taught me more than how to bake. It take me how to serve. It taught me how to serve with my family. My brother and I would go to which ever specific neighbors and give them a plate full of my dad’s famous cookies. Their eyes would light up and I felt so good. It was a little thing, but we did something nice for someone else.

I feel like this activity gave me a good feeling toward service. Service to me wasn’t digging holes or moving people or clearing rain gutters. It was making delicious food and sharing it with others. Then, when other service was needed as I got older, I was already happy to give it.

I would really like to continue this tradition with my own family. My kids are still little, so they don’t understand the giving part yet, but we still like to make cookies and share them with everyone around us. I came up with a little variation of my dad’s cookie recipe that we love. I’m excited to share it with you today. I hope you make some and share them with someone else!

By the way, the secret to good cookies is mixing by hand. No cheating with a hand mixer!

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